Band Quotes

New Amsterdam Records, a new label run by composers, has begun documenting this hybrid music, with invigorating discs by the band itsnotyouitsme and the composers Corey Dargel and William Brittelle.

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.

At that moment I didn't particularly care if a band of raging marauders tried to do her in,but if there were frequent attacks on her "castle," I thought I should know.

There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.

I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an outsider, period.

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

At some point I was hanging around with the Butchies - a band I ended up playing with a lot - and it just brought out this thing in me... and it felt very different from the Indigo Girls.

I hope that the next time you go to a concert, the band doesn't play the song you wanna hear! And instead, they just play songs off their new album!

My favorite band is probably The Cure. We can throw Talking Heads in there too, I listen to them a lot. But The Cure.

What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.

I think of a band like Animal Collective where they really follow their own sound and I think that's a really important thing to do. You can find an audience if you can find your voice.

I'm not going to get into details, but every band has their moments when things are tough. Just logistically, tough on your body, stress levels, psychologically tough, relationships can be tough.

Player for player, there’s 
no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.

I'm really interested in bands that sound nothing like anything I do or can do. That's what interests me.

I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.

Usually, the best thing is when the band goes to the bar and gets the corner table, we sit there like kings, and then they bring people to us. It's just rock 'n' roll. It's stupid, really.

To go see a band in a big venue is a difficult experience. I don't really like that too much. I'm not a guy who puts on iTunes and goes, "Oh, what's hot!" I don't need to.

It is not very practical in today’s world when you tour all over the place having a big band.

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.

I was fortunate to be connected with bands who later became pioneers for certain genres of music scenes. And my art went along with them for that ride and became associated with it.

I was buying old records a lot in my early teenage years and I was mostly drawn toward the artwork even more than the band itself. I loved the way the art set the scene for the music.

China has to move to a more flexible foreign currency trading system, no question about that. You might see two or three moves to widen the band, say to 0.5 percent.

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

Any artist manages his own business along with his manager. Every band should.

It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat.

I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to listen to it.

It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place.

I grew up listening to blues and rock 'n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world.

A lot of the guys that I date and my friends are all in bands.

I like the brand Band of Outsiders. Their suits are cut really slim, for smaller framed gentlemen.

I have nothing against people getting their band back together, but the artists I love marked a time in my life, and to merge that time with now can be personally depressing.

Most of the bands that I really like no longer exist. That might just be because I'm in my thirties or whatever. But I also think it's the rare band that doesn't, like, turn into something else.

A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.

Most of the bands that I really hold in my heart - you don't think about them as bands; they're just the soundtrack of your life.

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction.

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

Death Cab is a militantly analog band. We'll continue moving forward with our sound, but there will be no crossover.

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. Thats it.

Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.

I love to dance and I'd love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing...I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day.

We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.

We've gotten better at shooting down routine material or stuff we feel like we've done better in the past. Getting different people in the band for periods also keeps it from going stale.

There is a constant battle between Cogsy and I as who's the biggest psycho in the band

I had been playing with my local band, Skinny Cat. I had been to quite a few auditions before UFO, managed to get the gig and then not want to do it!

When I hooked up with them I was still going to Narcotics Anonymous. But they were never into drugs. If it weren't for the band, I think I'd still be getting high.

I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.

I mean, if I was living to please people, I'd have never been in a band at all. I wouldn't have anything awesome around. I'd just be bored.

A weird thing about Gossip that I've always said: "If I weren't in this band, I would never listen to it." But I would go see it. It's a band you would go see that you don't necessarily listen to.